Photo Galleries

Silent Success

Added: 24 Jun 2010

Despite being chased from their homes in the Central African Republic and losing their livelihoods, Mbororo refugees have survived by embracing a new way of life in neighbouring Cameroon.
The Mbororo, a tribe of nomadic cattle herders from Central African Republic, started fleeing their villages […]View photo gallery

Living Silence: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Added: 21 Jun 2010

"Living Silence" is a photographic exhibition of one of the world's most enduring refugee crises, by award-winning photographer Saiful Huq Omi.
Bangladesh has hosted refugees for over three decades. Today, 28,000 refugees from Myanmar known as the Rohingya - an ethnic, religious and linguistic minority […]View photo gallery

Angelina Jolie revisits refugees in Ecuador

World Refugee Day 2010 poster gallery

Added: 01 Jun 2010

UNHCR has created three posters available to view and download to support this year's World Refugee Day. Millions of refugees around the world are unable to go home. These posters celebrate the strength and resolve that forcibly displaced people have to overcome adversity and make the best of their future […]View photo gallery

Finding home: UNHCR honours uprooted people on World Refugee Day

Added: 19 May 2010

It's said that a man's home is his castle; a place of security and comfort. But for millions of people, home is a distant memory. It is a place they have had to flee to escape violence and persecution. Many end up living in a makeshift shelter or tent, either in their own country or in a foreign land. […]View photo gallery

Putting Our Work into Focus

A picture tells a thousand words - and UNHCR has more than 250,000 of
them dating back decades. Our photo library is guardian of the world's largest collection of refugee-related photos covering the past 60 years.